Filled with the Holy Spirit

[Daymon]

I apologize for coming across that way.

I did say I agreed in part.

I'm not that petty that I care....ok well I care, but I am not going to be upset because someone disagrees with me. I work in sales, people disagree with me every day. Your comments seemed abrasive, and it seemed to me it was because I didn't agree with you. And you just kept comming back posting them. I kept comming back too but it's my thread, I'm supposed to. It seemed to me you just kept comming back to get in one more "jab". This was not about being in disagreement.

Anyway, I'm dropping it. Hope you're not too sore with me.

[nebula]

Nah, not sore.

We just had a miscommunication problem.

[RGR]

I apologize for coming across that way.

Same here!

[IslandRose]

OK, I cleaned up the thread, left the apologies , and now it is ready to discuss the OP.

Shall we try again?

IR

[Daymon]

OK, I cleaned up the thread, left the apologies , and now it is ready to discuss the OP.

Shall we try again?

IR

Thanks Rose!

[cjrose]

I'm new here, but thought I would share something I found ineresting and I'm sure some of you will as well. I had read my bible earlier this afternoon, starting at Romans ch. 16 and read through to Corinthians ch. 2. After reading I sat there for a minute and thought about it for awhile, which always helps me to let it "sink in". For the first few seconds I actually pulled a blank and totally forgot what I had read....LOL. After thinking, something simple, yet still profound and unexpected occured to me. I need to explain something else real fast for this all to make sense. I was reading something in a thread the other day in the "spiritual warefare" forum I think. I don't remember the exact words, but the thread had something to do with being filled with the Holy Spirit, and the laying on of hands. I believe the person was wondering how it was they could be filled with the Holy Spirit....I'm not going word for word here...just the general idea of the thing.

Ok so here is where things get interesting. This just kind of occured to me, I wasn't even really thinking about it. Now, what I read did not speak specificly about being filled with the spirit or laying on of hands, but it did go into detail about the wisdom of the spirit and for lack of better terminology, "how it works". If you're interested read 1 Corinthians 2:10-12.

After pondering this for awhile it occured to me that being filled with the spirit may not be an entirely supernatural event. For example: If a person who has lets say a preoccupation for something sinful, such as porn or drugs. This person will seek out these things, and their thoughts will be consumed with thoughts of those things, so that person is filled with sin.....or unclean spirits. (this is just an anolgy mind you). Now on the other hand, if you take someone who is seeking out the Lords word, reads their bible, seeks knowledge, and their mind is generally consumed with the things of God, then this persons spirit is filled with the Holy Spirit. Not because he had hands layed on him, or a suprnatural event occured, but rather.....(this is though to explain) God's word was inspired by the Holy Spirit. So, if someone finds themselves consumed by the thoughts of God through his word, they are litterally being filled with the Holy Spirit.

Just thought I'd share

Thank you for sharing Daymon. You are correct. Example: if a person is doing something they know goes against the word of God then the Holy Spirit will not be present. It's there but not present enough for this person to feel it. However, the Holy Spirit dwells within us so that it may convict us of our sinful behavior and get us back to God. When we repent, when we ask for forgiveness in our truest sincerity and a loving heart and are truly sorry, the Holy Spirit fills us with Christs love since God is one in three persons. Essentially God dwells within us. When we accept Him one of His gifts is the Holy Spirit and I can tell you time and time again I have cried tears of joy because I feel the love of the Holy Spirit wrap me up, surround me, comfort me and remind me that I am a child of God. Praise the Lord. Repent and be joyful!